FAIRMONT – Cars and trucks cruising down nearby Interstate 79 told the tale. That is, you can’t get where you need to go – if you don’t […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Deep roots: Blaney family has nearly 250 years of farming history in Mon
Moos and aahs. Bruce Blaney knows how to draw a crowd. He gathered a pretty sizable one, in fact, when he ducked around the fence at his […]
United Way keynote speaker: ‘Poor’ doesn’t mean ‘lazy’
Amy Jo Hutchison got a standing ovation at the Community Leaders’ Breakfast for the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties on Friday morning – and that […]
‘Mini-grants’ to area educators offered by Your Community Foundation
Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia is going back to school. The nonprofit, outreach organization is now offering an opportunity for educator “mini-grants” of up […]
Renaissance Academy: ‘Not your grandfather’s vo-tech’
Work has begun in earnest prepping the site that could be home to the Renaissance Academy, a planned $72 million facility dedicated to science, technology, engineering and […]
Mon students go back to school
One broken arm on the playground. One cracked wall in a library. A handful of snarled bus routes. And scores of smiling, happy faces. So went the […]
Local contractor wants to (re)make history in Greenmont
This is a story about possibly the oldest rental property in Morgantown. Which, naturally, begins with the discovery of an empty whiskey bottle in another house, not […]
State Board of Ed on stalled test scores: ‘We can, and must, do better’
The aftermath of COVID-19 still continues to cast a long shadow over West Virginia’s public education fortunes. That was evident this past week in Charleston, when the […]
Cleared for takeoff: Pierpont to construct new aviation facility
FAIRMONT — Flying is flying — no matter the scale. A budding group of pilots and aviation engineers from middle schools and high schools across West Virginia […]
‘Dolly Day’ makes for a good read in W.Va.
Wednesday was Dolly Day across West Virginia — and it was a real page-turner. That’s Dolly as in Dolly Parton, the country music superstar-turned advocate for the […]
